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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

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Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

Harvard Business Review

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Asian Americans (including Indians) are 27% of the workers in these companies , but only 19% of managers and 14% of executives.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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When a Leader Is Causing Conflict, Start by Asking Why

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. Manage your assumptions and judgements. I’d heard from the company’s HR manager that this executive was especially cruel toward one colleague. Charles Orr/Getty Images.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”